Voltaire Foundation Research Showcase: Presentations by postdoctoral researchers from Voltaire Foundation and Turin Humanities Programme (Fondazione 1563)
14/11/2025, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
VF Research Showcase
Friday 14 November 2025
Presentations by postdoctoral researchers from Voltaire Foundation and Turin Humanities Programme (Fondazione 1563).
Salon, Maison Française d’Oxford
Discussion chaired by Antoine Lilti (Collège de France).
Chair: Antoine Lilti
9.00 VF postdocs presentations
Olivier Higgins, ‘After Frederick: German Idealism and the Echo of Enlightenment’
Jonas Thorup Thomsen, ‘A Media Revolution in 18th-Century Denmark: The Emergence of Rural Lending Libraries’
10-10.15 coffee
10.15 Turin Humanities Programme postdocs presentations
Caroline Gleason-Mercier, ‘Becoming a Fugitive Wife: Julie Candeille’s Catherine, ou La belle fermière‘
Sam Harrison, ‘Can the cannibal speak? Reasonable and unreasonable people-eating in the French Enlightenment’
Morgan Golf-French, ‘Who were the Peguinen? Race, confusion, and career opportunities at eighteenth-century Göttingen’
11.45-12 coffee
12-1pm
Presentation of OV (Oxford University Voltaire)
Nicholas Cronk, Gillian Pink, Alison Oliver, Dan Barker, Zoe Screti
1-1.45pm lunch
2.15-3pm Taylor Institution, Voltaire Room – organised by Nick Hearn
Exhibition of items acquired with William Barber Fund
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